Coronavirus: Germany eases lockdown

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English - April 19, 2020 18:16 - 5 minutes - 5.09 MB
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Germany will start to ease some of its restrictions on Monday after declaring its coronavirus outbreak "under control".
The health minister Jens Spahn credits this to a lockdown imposed after an early surge in cases.
Mr Spahn says that since 12 April the number of recovered patients had been consistently higher than the number of new infections.
Berlin correspondent Thomas Sparrow speaks to Corin Dann.